SECOND TIER LAPTOP PRODUCER PREDICTS 1 MILLION UNITS TO BE SHIPPED – LAPTOP INDUSTRY ON THE RISE

The notebook sector is booming each day with the wide spread awareness on the E-wastes being driven into loads of minds each day. In relevance to this 2nd tier laptop producer Elite group Computer Systems (ECS) dead lines consignments in the 2nd quarter this year and which was confidently predicted to reap the top marks and will attain one million units, the similar volume the company privileged to set on sail in 1st half of 2007, according to the sources. ECS predicts its annual laptop consignments to reach the high marks of 4 million units in 2008, and an overall amplification of 60% on year.

WD VELOCIRAPTOR REWRITING THE HARD DRIVE INDUSTRY

35% quicker than previous Raptors, sprinting at the rate of 10000 RPM, a 2.5-inch notebook HDD is essentially everything. Western Digital today revealed an revise to the earlier planted Raptor-series of concert series of hard drives in the outline of WD VelociRaptor. VelociRaptor is the subsequently the next generation of WD merchandise of its 10,000 RPM SATA "Raptor" variants of memory drives. WD VelociRaptor hard drive approaches crammed with twofold the capacity of preceding Raptors and a 35 percent recital increase over the preceding genre.

WD VelociRaptor memory unit drive is build with enterprise-class mechanics and stacks a whole lot of 300 GB of luggage compartment capacity into a 2.5-inch structure factor. It's concealed in the Ice-Pack, a 3.5-inch swelling frame with an in built heat sink a unique development in the ranks customization that houses the unit into a customary 3.5-inch system bay and maintains this powerful unit extra cool when enforced in a high-performance desktop chassis. In other features, the WD VelociRaptors contain in itself a formidable SATA 3GB/s interface, 16MB Cache and a very imposing 1.4 million hours of total MTBF. WD VelociRaptor (model no: WD-3000-GLFS) hard drive units will be on sale via Alienware's high end performance ALX series of gaming notebooks by the end of April this year.